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Travel ads reveal more but...
Mon, Nov 10, 2008
The Straits Times

NEW rules designed to make air travel advertisements transparent have killed off those '$1' flights to Bangkok, but the actual prices of package holidays still remain anyone's guess.

A scan of travel advertisements shows that most travel agents and airlines now include other fees such as fuel surcharges and airport taxes in the cost of a ticket.

Online, budget carriers Tiger and Jetstar Asia are including taxes and surcharges in their one-way fares.

 

 


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